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“Pakistan has begun mass deportation of undocumented Afghans residing in the country illegally, including thousands of people who escaped the Taliban's rule and who are at risk of persecution at home after the country fell to the Taliban two years ago following the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

In October, the Pakistani government gave 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or face arrest and forced deportation. Police also warned landlords to avoid renting homes for undocumented refugees.”

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archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

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They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

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what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

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I just watched Shekhar Home (2024) by BBC India/JioCinema. With Kay Kay Menon & Ranvir Shorey

Despite being inspired by BBCSH, it manages to overcome the cases, and better explain them, making the references to the canon even more evident. And it takes place in the 90s.

The first episode is an adaptation of Study in Pink, but unlike BBCSH the explanation and motivations of the killer are more coherent, and Shekhar is smarter than Sherlock when it comes to facing the killer:

Shekhar / Sherlock

The second episode is based on the story of the "League of Redheads" with a contextualization to Indian society and I found it incredible, the same occurs in the adaptation of "Scandal in Bohemian", Irene's motivations are social justice policies, and Shekhar helps her. (She is beautiful and sings beautifully)

The fourth episode brings together "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Devil's Foot", again in a well-contextualized.

The fifth episode is a flashback, and Shekhar was a college professor of Forensic Science, who occasionally helped the police, such as Dr. Joseph Bell.

The sixth episode is AMAZING, no spoiler about it.

Shekhar and Sahni's (Watson) relationship develops very quickly, they are soon friends and then detective partners.

Shekhar: What would I have done without you?

Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson's version are very funny. Mycroft is here too. Big Brother 🤏

Sahni wants their business to make money so they can pay the rent, which Shekhar is against. Sahni is also active in the investigations, as much a detective as Shekhar.

The series is AMAZING, so good, and the ending is SURPRISING AND SHOCKING.

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an anti, anti-smoking announcement from john waters, 1981.

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okay I did laugh out loud.

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Maybe this was just how my family did things growing up but when I was a kid and we saw a lady with chin hairs or a small chest or large feet or a broad shoulders we’d say “it’s rude and mean to pick apart someone’s appearance” and mind our own damn business.

Apart from being reductive, transphobic, and anti-woman, all this “transvestigating” nonsense is just plain bad manners, and I think we should say that more

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A labubu is a powerful charm if the one it is bound to is full of love and not materialism

idk. maybe im too much of a hermit to understand such things. but ultimately it’s a mass produced piece of fabric and cloth put in a “mystery box” to trigger the part of your brain that loves gambling; a carefully-cultivated, intentionally-created market of trendy consumerism and inflated values propped up by a sea of collectors and venture capitalists, all designed to ensure that it’s just quirky enough to be endearing whilst serving as an inherently “prized item” for young adults and teenagers divorced from any inherent value or function. you are not playing with your labubu. you don’t love it just because it looks cute—or, if you think you do, you have been deceived by marketing. it is a commodity of wanting. it is a brand of having. it is devoid of purpose or soul, other than what you give to it—and your choice to give it your soul doesn’t exist in a vacuum

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There are good people out there. Some of them are even state senators.

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Every time I read one of those age gap posts the age where you're still helpless and being taken advantage of gets higher and higher, like 26 years old is too young to interact with older people what the fuck? I have lots of friends who were/are well into doing a PhD at this point. My dad had me at 26 years old. You're a whole grown ass person participating in society, you can vote and join politics, you can work, you can live in your own.

This smolbeanification has to stop, it's frankly embarrassing.

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